"gkelly" <gkelly_at_xmission.com> wrote in message
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I don't see the need to have IIS installed simply to compile an ASP.NET
app. I suppose I could just use the command line compiler. But this is part
of a much much large compile that consists of may different solution files.
This is just one. Is there a way to compile an ASP.NET application using
the IDE without having to connect to IIS?
As far as I know, there is not.
The idea is that a "web project" isn't really just some files on the disk.
It's really some files retrieved from a web server. You've got to have a web
server to retrieve the files from.
In VS2005 this is improved. A "web site" (note - not a "web project"
anymore) can be located on the file system, on your local IIS server, on an
FTP server, or on a remote web server.
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John Saunders
johnwsaundersiii at hotmail